Screw that...👎
I don't see the need to get a new phone 📱 every year.
Get over it: you need to upgrade your phone every year now. I prove it
@randynose Lol, I've had my OnePlus One for 5 years, and it'll probably last at least one more, maybe 2 or 3.
So, that's 0.19 per day, 0.13 if I keep it two more years.
What do people do with their phones to need the new model??
@Matter @randynose I just got a Pixel 4a after having my OnePlus 6t for over 2 years, longest I've had a phone. Changed the charging port and antennas out. After last opening, changing the charging port, I spidered the back screen. Antennas went again and if I would have taken off the back screen again I would not have gotten it back on again. Only reason I got a new one device
What's needed is forcing manufacturers to stop providing devices that can't be repaired, starting with the battery. Another annoying thing is the impossibility to upgrade the OS on most Android phones.
I know in the States the idea that "the free market will regulate itself" is popular, but it simply doesn't work, the evidence is there for everyone to see. 🙄
@obi @Matter
@normand @Matter @randynose won't ever happen. If your phones aren't outdated or break, their profits won't be high. What's the alternative to the free market tho? Gov't regulation? They will just regulate them into prices of shit
The EU has proven time and again that government regulation is effective in reining in big companies. It's just that the US political system has been bought off by the lobbies, and the population brainwashed to think this is normal.
@Matter @randynose
BTW I live in Canada where we have in some regards more regulation than in the US, and nobody screams "SOCIALISM!!!"
And I think we're still much behind the EU.
👍 You're so right Normand.
The only thing that comes to mind that was deregulated in the US that helped the consumer was breaking up Ma Bell.
The US NEEDS some serious regulations in terms on how a LOT of things are done. - Phones would be a small thing compared to regulating costs in the health care system.
The US has the best government that money can buy.
@randynose @normand @Matter I've never seen our gov't regulate anything well. I'm sure their are some examples, but I can't think of any. They is a pastry company in Ohio for example: State regulators fined them $10k+ for having the doors to their kitchen area opening in instead of out. They spent a lot of money and reversed it. Federal regulators came in a year or so later and fined them for having their doors open out, instead of in. Bureaucracy challenges for even stupid little shit is just awful here.
